Los Angeles Final Cut Pro Users Group — This is one of the largest, and perhaps one of the best known, Final Cut Pro user groups on the planet. They have an incredible web site which has tutorials, web broadcasts of their twice annual Supermeets (with great speeches from top practitioners in the field).

LAFCPUG FAQ Wiki — This deserves an entry all of its own. This FAQ Wiki is compiled by Ben King and Jude Cotter, and is the start of something really cool – a central repository of all FCP knowledge, spearheaded by the FCP geeks at the LA FInal Cut Pro Users Group.

Larry Jordan — a Final Cut Pro wiz. This site has reviews, tutorials, tips and tricks, and much much more.

Solving FCP’s Failings – A nice article from the International Film School of Sydney, which talks about add-ons to FCP that address some of the missing pieces — such as a full uninstall, and a better preference manager.

Spherico’s XML Tools — A list of tools that utilize Final Cut’s XML features. According to the site: “They all are big time savers, or allow you to get access to data of your FCP project that normally are hard to get or to change.”

About Norman Hollyn

Norman Hollyn has been described as a “media expert,” a reference to his experience in a wide variety of media types – in both the old and new media worlds.

He is a long-time film, television and music editor (HEATHERS, THE COTTON CLUB, SOPHIE’S CHOICE, Oliver Stone’s WILD PALMS), and is Associate Professor and Head of the Editing Track at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. He is an author of nearly 100 articles and his book, THE FILM EDITING ROOM HANDBOOK, has been internationally translated. His new book, THE LEAN FORWARD MOMENT, comes out from Peachpit Press/Pearson in December.

He has taught worldwide, including several workshops for the Royal Film Commission in Jordan. He has taught at the Sundance Film Festival, and consults and speaks at major corporations such as Dreamworks Pictures and the Philadelphia Inquirer. He has worked as an expert witness in legal cases involving the aesthetics or history of editing, and is partner in an Internet development firm. He presently editing and co-directing a documentary about architecture called OFF THE GRID and editing an international long-distance collaborative documentary called RIVERS.